It's just that emotion on a journey when you come face to face with one of nature's wonders. The excitement when you experience a culture unknown to you. Kuoni understand how you feel and what you need because they are travellers too. Kuoni knows that for most people, a holiday represents the most important weeks of the year. Which is why the company devotes 52 weeks a year making sure that every trip is as perfect as it could be.

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milions nights were booked on Kuoni’s

Kuoni was voted the World’s Leading Luxury Tour Operator at the World Travel Awards 2013.

For more than 100 years, Kuoni has been creating high quality, tailor-made holidays, looking for that perfect moment in every travel – a unique, unforgettable experience. Authentic and incomparable. This dedication is rewarded by its customers: Kuoni won the World Travel Award as the World's Leading Luxury Tour Operator and Destination Management Company in (November) 2013. To complete this precious relationship with its customers, Kuoni has also been expanding its services in recent years to meet the demands of the most discerning travellers as well as the challenges of the industry. Ranging from improved online travel services and offers, to Visa Facilitation Services, and the 2011 acquisition of GTA – a world leader in the provision of ground travel products and services to the travel industry – all of these milestones make Kuoni a truly global player who can bring holidaymakers from anywhere to everywhere in the world.

But as much as innovation plays a big role at Kuoni, tradition and sustainability are the other strengths the company stands for. Kuoni are not only keen to look after the interests of the travellers but especially the people who live at the destinations – as any holiday can only be as perfect and precious if great care is taken to the local people and places too. Kuoni is known as a leading provider of sustainable holidays.

And the expertise and advice of Credit Suisse is helping Kuoni sparkle.

Making of

How a bank can help your holidays sparkle

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A wide array of precious jewels was collected.

One of the jewels chosen for use in the shoot.

Crystals are meticulously positioned to create the a sparkling sea.

Glimmering jewels begin to make up the elements of the beach scene.

The photographer adds the finishing touch of gold dust to the set.

Bit by bit, the beach scene slowly comes together.

The base form of the crab, before it is covered in jewels.

Each crab leg can be adjusted individually to create the illusion of movement in the animation.

A complicated lighting set up creates individual shadows for each element.

The photographer and his team discuss the precise details of the shoot.